“Present” in the process of electing the president of PASOK, said Haris Doukas, speaking to the party’s Central Committee.

“I will be present in this effort with PASOK, as I have been throughout my public course,” declared Mr. Doukas and continued saying: “I am not hiding, I am not afraid, I am coming forward and asking for your support. Let’s go win now. The goal is not to win over Kasselakis, but to defeat ND in the next national elections. We don’t need messiahs, we want leadership that will put ‘together’ into practice.”

He also emphasized “our opponents are not inside this room, they are outside. In a climate of unity, I agree with the road map of Nikos Androulakis.”

“I will remain mayor of Athens”

Mr. Doukas reiterated that in any case he will remain mayor of Athens “it is a mutual advantage, it is a European acquis.”

At the same time, he noted that it is time “to reopen the cycle of transcendence. Not in a new cycle of introversion and discord. Yes, in a party of members, not executives and mechanisms.”

I get extreme attacks

In addition, Mr. Doukas emphasized that he receives “extreme attacks from the right and its systems, but also the extreme right.”

He even said that the involvement in PASOK’s internal parties is done on the order of Mitsotakis. “The Democratic Party cannot remain silent when Mr. Mitsotakis tries to interfere in the election of the president.”

Let’s look worthy of Andreas Papandreou

Finally, Mr. Doukas underlined that Mitsotakis will not leave, having 13 and 15% parties against him. “To show ourselves worthy of the PASOK of Andreas Papandreou of change, of Kostas Simitis of modernization, of Giorgos Papandreou, of Vangelis Venizelos, of Fofi Gennimata and of Nikos Androulakis who strengthened our percentages.”